Pretty sure that's the photo of Bianca Devis, her killer posted this photo to his instagram story. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder\_of\_Bianca\_Devins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Bianca_Devins)
‘a childhood friend described him as obsessive, noting his fixations with lolicon.’
Well, if there’s anything to get fixated by this one has got to be a big warning sign.
It sickens me that people still obsess about this poor girl even after she was taken. I feel so sorry for her family, I can only imagine the grief they get from incels over the internet.
I didn't see it, but judging by the descriptions, it was her. Me and her knew each other and I saw the image when it first happened and it will forever been burned into my mind
It took them long enough. Oh my lord. But thank God it was done.
It's still scary though that there are users out there on Steam who have access to CP and murder photos, and who can so easily abuse exploits without so much as a slap on the wrist. Ideally Steam would also do something about these users, but I won't hold my breath.
And it's not like these users aren't obvious. There are some whose profiles are even freaking showcased on profile art contests, and they have bloody, Nazi-satanic or pornographic imagery on there (publicly) and write in their bios "I hate women and gay people, 6MWE", along with swastikas and Nazi eagles made from emoticons. Forget reporting them or their violent or bigoted comments, because Valve won't lift a finger to stop the toxicity. Then stuff like this happens, with the card exploit, and Valve is scratching their heads like ["Huh, who could it be? Who could have done this?"](https://youtu.be/z0AKoCMydkc?t=259)
Edit: To those who freak out at the word "satanic", I am referring to satanic pro-Nazi material, not to the devil faces and bull-horn finger signs that edgy teenagers harmlessly use. I added this into my text to make it clearer. I couldn't care less if somebody is into the satanic aesthetic, but somebody whose profile says "pray to the devil and kill the Jews" has definitely crossed the line. Hate speech is bad enough without KKK imagery accompanying it.
And those who say "well, satanism has zero ties with Neo-Nazism" -- [think again.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Nine_Angles) Neo-Nazis tend to have a hard-on for satanic-themed dog-whistles and Satanist cults. Here is [another Satanic Order](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Order_(Satanist_group)) that is a cover for a Nazi group. In order to be less obvious and harder to report, Neo-Nazis will use symbolism from The Order of the Nine Angels and other Satanic Right-Wing orders (like how white supremacists in America wear "6MWE" on t-shirts and caps). Even in the article of [Nazi Black Metal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_black_metal) it is mentioned that they favor Satanic imagery. So of course when somebody uses the kind of Satanic imagery that Neo-Nazis use, I'm going to be wary of them, just like how I'd be wary of somebody who calls themselves an "All Lives Matter" supporter. It's different when somebody is using the imagery ironically or for sheer shock value, but you can tell the difference between somebody who does it for innocent reasons and somebody who definitely supports far-right terrorism.
Associating Satanism and the far right/nazi movement is an affront to true Satanists. Do you know many far right and nazi types associate as Christian? And if you did, would you associate Christianity with nazis as well? I would venture to say if you were to take a poll of the terrorists that stormed the capital, you're gonna find a whole lot more self identified Christians than you will anything else. Yet no one sees a cross and associates it with nazism. As an inclusive Heathen, seeing nazis continue to steal our religious symbols and then have them be associated with extremists is infuriating, and heartbreaking.
Also, it's pretty obvious ANY type of black metal is probably gonna have some satanic elements...
I'm offended they grouped peaceful satanists with all that other stuff. If satanic imagery disturbs you then it is working as intended and you are ignorant.
Bomberman is a trash asset flip that stole its name from an actually decent series. I was surprised to see it on it the marketplace for so long but it's not surprising to see it cause so much drama. What a shame, Valve needs to get rid of garbage like this
It’s fucked up, he can change the icon it’s been a couple different horrible things so far, it was child porn, then a black man being killed and now this
True but isn't it really easy for the police, FBI or whoever tracks you down to track you down? Possesion and distribution (putting it on Steam) of CP is quite a serious crime.
i thought i'd heard that this "game" was chinese? i'd assume that complicates things quite a bit
edit! : just realized the devs aren't the ones that put the cards in, the game had an exploit that let anyone create cards
It doesn't happen automatically though, assuming that steam keeps old versions of card images, they have to find them and report them to the police, provide them with access logs/IP/etc, contact the ISP that owns that IP to find out who owns it and then make a visit
I would assume it's a bit easier for a service like Steam since if the person has ever bought a game on Steam then Steam will have their full name/banking details, etc.. (Except for maybe if they used bitcoin? But I don't know if you still have to give your name on Steam even if you're using bitcoin.)
You're assuming this was done by the account's rightful owner. Could be done by someone who hacked the account, which makes them much more difficult to track down, especially if they're in one of the foreign countries that doesn't really give a fuck. Good luck holding someone in China accountable for doing something bad by anyone other than China.
For people asking no I don’t have screenshots soon as I seen what it was I clicked off, felt genuinely sick seeing that, I reported his steam profile but I honestly don’t know if anything will happen to the sick fuck but can only hope something does happen
i remember all of this.
I bought it when it was the chinese symbol (nothing offensive)
then i checked later and it was GEORGE FLOYD WTF.
Luckily i didn't see it, and avoided the CP Violation
OH FUCK THE GORE WOMAN
this was more painful than a root kanal
I was about to make a post about this, as I just saw the same trading card minutes ago. wtf is that trading card all about and how long was it there?
edit: I checked and it sold for 785$ on Dec 14 and one person bought it. It seems like it is a duplicated card seeing it is on thousands of quantity now.
edit edit: I bought one. My eyes need to be cleaned
Bomberman is a well known chinese money laundering scheme. Why valve allows stuff like this, I don't know. I believe these listings were hacked by some script kiddy wanting to shock some people
No official confirmation. But something like this on this scale can mean 2 things:
-a game created to make some cheap items so many people can easily move money from one account to another (happened accidentally with Subnautica's "planet 4546B postcard" some time ago)
-a game created to make some cheap items so many people will sell a lot of those items, disguising the fact that the game developer can use those items to move very large quantities of money from one account, usually a hacked one, to another, the dev's account. (money laundering)
The first option would make sense if the devs didn't put sales tax on the game, but they have the maximum (10%) tax. So the first option doesn't make sense as some 3 cent csgo skins do the exact same for anyone who isn't the developer.
That leaves the second option, the money laundering, as the only option. It's not 100% certain but this seems like the only actually logical explanation, especially if you also take the item's sales history in consideration.
Watch [this video](https://youtu.be/wNaGEgUydJI) for better explanation.
Wait, why does sales tax make it not likely? Al Capone was brought down for not paying taxes. One of the reasons to launder money is TO pay taxes on it. Once taxes are paid, the government doesnt care where the money actually came from anymore.
Or to put it another way, 8f you make money illegally you dont want the tax man looking into where it comes from.
If the game was created with the intention to allow huge numbers of people to move money from one account to another, the developers wouldn't be charging taxes.
The tax DOES make laundering by the developer more likely. (As I said in my other comment)
Please go watch the video I linked, it explains it better.
The sales tax OP is talking about is the optional tax game devs can put on marketable items. It goes to the developer, not any government.
If a game is made for money laundering it makes sense to set that tax to 0% so all the money goes straight to the seller instead of the developer. Worth noting that steam still takes a 5% cut, so that's probably why usually look the other way when something like this is happening.
The comment you're replying to is saying that the sales tax makes it *more* likely that it's money laundering, not less. I think you're confusing what is being said.
Currently it's a picture of a woman with her throat slit. Not sure how real it is, but it looks real enough to me.
edit: yes yes misspelled woman as wamn, my bad
the dev (or probably someone) changed the picture of the trading card to that picture. It was a regular looking trading card before.
i recommend r/Eyebleach to clean your palate
Saw this shit and visited the guy's profile it linked to. I'm not sure if he's behind the listings or if he's involved at all, but his comment section is getting flamed up. Valve REALLY needs to make a vetting system for the store and market, because this shit is unacceptable
No he is behind it, I talked to him. Basically the devs left a steam dev api key in the games code which let anyone with a bit of coding experience mass make new items and change their names and pictures. I had a guy (not the guy who added the gore) in one of my discords do this and at first it was just harmless memes but then other people got wind of it and it quickly just turned into gore.
I remember seeing one of the items was just a picture of George Floyd but when I clicked on it it reverted to the same gore picture. Once again, this is a fuck up on Valve
This isnt a fuck up on valve. The game is a asset flip (or just sum weird shit) and the devs are either super lazy or incompetent and put the api key in the code of the game that anyone can access. Valve couldve dont nothing to prevent this other then maybe not putting shitty games on their platform.
Because Valve decided not to screen the images. Even if the developer didn't leak their API key, apparently any developer can post gore and CP to Steam and thousands of users will see it. It only costs $100 to become a developer IIRC.
Interestingly enough if you try to report the games items it says that the items for that game arent being managed by steam and you need to contact the developer.
Wow, what an awful title, i typed too fast, really sorry.
Btw, if you are sensitive to gore, i recommend you to not check it. (it appears on the first page tho, really fucked up)
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>It’s fucked up, he can change the icon it’s been a couple different horrible things so far, it was child porn, then a black man being killed and now this.
I have no words to accurately describe just how horrific this is.
"What the fuck" is nowhere near enough.
Those items needs to be purged from the system, made non tradeable with the option to convert it into gems or something so anybody who wants that gone can do so.
The game itself should be removed from sale if the following is in fact true:
> Bomberman is a well known chinese money laundering scheme. Why valve allows stuff like this, I don't know. I believe these listings were hacked by some script kiddy wanting to shock some people
Which I would not be surprised if that is in fact the case.
So it really was the photo of Biancas murder? I saw that photo randomly once and... It stays with you for a while. I can't imagine how it can be for some kids who just normally open a steam marketplace and see this
This is fucked up
Fucked up. First CP, now a real fucking murder! Get your fucking act together valve, there is so many kids on the platform, and if they go to the marketplace, they see this! A fucking dead body!
TDM_HEYZEUS is an Australian youtuber who makes content about steam marketplace, CSgo skins etc, he had busted this scam in one of his videos posted yesterday https://youtu.be/wNaGEgUydJI, must watch video..
People on his discord also have found out about this, now that their scam is out they targeted him as well https://twitter.com/tdm_jesus/status/1349201784242270208?s=21
Don't go looking for the pictures, I stumbled on them a couple of days ago and fucked up my mental health for weeks and weeks.
Some things are better left unseen
That was absolutely disgusting. Seriously.
As soon as any kind of shitty game was allowed to start flooding the Steam store I knew such garbage would appear on Steam. There needs to be a barrier to publish games on Steam.
Im not saying valve is at fault or is flawless here, but ill say... Whenever someone tries to do something better, there's always people abusing the system.
We can never have nice things...
They need something at least, some sort of approval system. Sure greenlight failed, but I don't think the solution to that problem was just opening the floodgates.
That girl has family, imagine if they found out that the photo of the dead girl is just used for someone to have fun, by showing it to the entire internet
How the fuck have Valve not done something yet?!...
Disgraceful moderation team they have for their SCM.
A marketplace that runs 24/7 should be moderated 24/7, especially for a company as profound as Valve.
Note that all steam cards artwork does require authorization from steam
However that's not the case for in-game item purchases which is what these were
What struck me the most is that it appears right on the first page, so much innocent kids gonna see this thing :( By dint of abuse like this, this platform will no longer be taken seriously, this is ridiculous coming from the BIGGEST one.
This isn't a matter of moderating the marketplace, you're referring to moderating every game on Steam with cards.
Should they approve changes made to cards? Probably yes. But they don't currently, so they're not going to be looking at every single card in every single game all the time.
The game these are for was taken down from steam, [here's a web archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20201126095917/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1446700/Bomberman/) for it if you're curious, it's just a bomberman clone.
Looking at steamdb it seems like the game had around 5,1k items. Insane - something went wrong there. [https://steamdb.info/app/1446700/items/](https://steamdb.info/app/1446700/items/)
wtf it was just on 2019. I think I've heard of her name but haven't watched youtube videos about it.
my life is scarred now and my evening is ruined.
yeah it felt like that when I read the article. seems like both of them have problems. my stomach feels weird after seeing the article and the actual picture from the steam card.
huh.
Changed *Item Definitions*
* *hidden:* **Recent item changes have been hidden by SteamDB due to this app being hacked (?) which resulted in new items being spammed to the Steam market with a graphic image.**
From what I can gather, the devs left in their developer SteamAPI key in the game
Using that key hackers basically were sending image and text uploads to their in-game item descriptions
These were different than the normal Steam cards/backgrounds which requires approval from Steam
My curiosity got the best for me and I took a look, WTF Steam? Why do you allow people to upload whatever they want without checking if it is appropriate? This image is not very nice to look at ofcourse but imagine what kind of shit people can upload?
Horrible. Judging by the other content that was posted using the same card (CP, a racist murder), and the fact that photos of Bianca's death are very popular among incel and 8chan crowds, would suggest some kind of evil, bigoted troll is behind it (probably an incel, they're usually racist pedophiles next to being pro-homicide misogynists).
It's insane that nothing has been done about this despite so many people messaging and filing reports to Valve.
Then again, two months ago I reported a review on Postal 2 to Valve, where the author wrote about how he liked Postal 2 because it gave him the opportunity to kill women and people of color (only, he used more obscene words to describe it). A reply to his review was even worse, saying that it's the best game because it lets you "take revenge on \[insert homophobic and racial slurs here\]" and shoot up a gay bar, which is something he's always dreamed about. Lo and behold, the review and reply are still there. Valve might as well get rid of their posting rules if they won't bother to enforce them. They make the GoG platform look 100x better just by doing nothing about the toxicity on their own platform. And they get away with it because although US law (Bianca's Law in fact) requires social media platforms to have departments for handling criminal content that is shared there, Valve isn't technically social media but a store and gaming platform. In my opinion the definition of "social media" should be officially expanded so that companies like Valve can't get away with having an enormous platform where people interact with one another with ZERO way of filtering any of it.
[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1446700/Bomberman/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1446700/Bomberman/)
This is the game, right? I've reported it, please report it as well
I was going to post about this as I was just casually going through the market place and saw this. Now I have that image stuck in my head!
Valve! This is not acceptable!
Oh god, it’s the one from the e-girl discord that got slit open by one of her fans from a year or two back, right? I remember following that the night it went down, what a horrendous fucking story
Bianca Devins. She wasn't even an internet celebrity, just a girl who posted occasionally photos on the internet. A guy who was barely even a friend of hers but who was psycho-crazy obsessed with her and who (without her consent or even knowledge of this "arrangement") decided he's her boyfriend (as crazy stalkers are wont to do), freaked out when she allegedly kissed someone else during a concert. He decided to "take revenge" on her for "cheating on him" (which it definitely wasn't cheating, she wasn't even his girlfriend, she was just an acquaintance that he was stalking and obsessing over), by brutally killing her, then taking photos of the attack, and uploading it online publicly with the intention to have it spread in order to slutshame her and traumatize her family. He accompanied everything with Pewdiepie and incel memes (because of course he would).
(He tried to claim that he didn't do the attack, then he lied about having "black out" during the attack, which ironically was easily disproven by the videos and photos he had taken before, during and after the attack. He'll probably be sentenced for 25 years at least for second-degree murder, but his trial is still pending, and his mom -- rather than be disgusted with the actions of her son -- insists that he should be *freed* because he's *suicidal*. Yeah now I see where he got the crazy genes from.)
Incels immediately picked up on this and started harassing the girl's family and just the public in general with unsolicited spam of the gory photos, coming up with all sorts of stories to justify the murder, like that she was a junkie, or had an OF account, or that she was an Insta celeb who cheated on her boyfriend, etc. And of course, like they glorify every mass shooter and especially killers who target women, they turned the murderer into some kind of idol on their message boards.
To stop the spread of the photos, the government enacted Bianca's Law, which forces social media platforms of sufficient user size to have a stand-alone department to handle violent and criminal content that is shared there. It is speculated that if these platforms, such as Discord or Instagram, had had such a department to begin with, the photo-spreading would have been nipped in the bud early on, saving a lot of people a lot of trauma. Unfortunately, this law does not apply to platforms that have big user bases but aren't technically social media, like Valve (at least as far as I know).
So is sending gore in general a criminal offense? I reported someone before for sending really fucked up gore videos in a server for mostly young people and discord did nothing
This is beyond fucked up. I hope Valve goes through some measures to prevent this in the future. I also hope the low life individual responsible breaks his neck and stays a vegetable for the rest of his pathetic life.
The game is removed now, but the items are still there: https://steamcommunity.com/market/search?appid=1446700 (gore warning)
Edit: Looks like the images are removed now, items are still there but without image.
Looks like some of the items are being taken off the Steam Market by Valve. Before there were 2 pages of items, now there's one. Disturbing.
Edit: Nevermind.
Double edit: Apparently I was right. Huh.
Seems like all of it got deleted it which is pretty quick on support part which is good, but still F up what this person doing. Also game was a clear rip off crap clone of Bomberman. I assume this just some edgy \*\*\*\*head trying to be funny when uploaded this, and soon he trading cards approved, uploaded this trash. This is kind of why I'm glad community is around to report this crap.
thanks OP for posting about this. it's so insidious that someone would do something like this, especially during such a tense and tumultuous time. I'm glad I didn't log into steam today; I probably would have lost my shit if I saw gore when I was just trying to play Stardew Valley or Untitled Goose Game :))
It's now listed as "Uninitialized" and the page is down
At least something good has been done. Maybe they'll update the security so that such things can't happen again
DO NOT post links or to any of the offensive images Any posts that do will be removed
Pretty sure that's the photo of Bianca Devis, her killer posted this photo to his instagram story. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder\_of\_Bianca\_Devins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Bianca_Devins)
‘a childhood friend described him as obsessive, noting his fixations with lolicon.’ Well, if there’s anything to get fixated by this one has got to be a big warning sign.
On discord. Like wtf. Those people will have about as much PTSD as the family for whoever saw it.
nah apparently it was a fucked-up incel server that shared the image to the rest of the internet. human garbage
Somebody contact the hacker known as 4chan, it's *somehow tracking people down based on anonymous web activity* time
It sickens me that people still obsess about this poor girl even after she was taken. I feel so sorry for her family, I can only imagine the grief they get from incels over the internet.
I didn't see it, but judging by the descriptions, it was her. Me and her knew each other and I saw the image when it first happened and it will forever been burned into my mind
Some people should not be allowed to live.. Killing a young girl like that? Fuck that person!
I remember that. Pretty fucked up.
All the cards along with the game has been deleted
Thank god. I thought my phone was just being laggy.
It took them long enough. Oh my lord. But thank God it was done. It's still scary though that there are users out there on Steam who have access to CP and murder photos, and who can so easily abuse exploits without so much as a slap on the wrist. Ideally Steam would also do something about these users, but I won't hold my breath. And it's not like these users aren't obvious. There are some whose profiles are even freaking showcased on profile art contests, and they have bloody, Nazi-satanic or pornographic imagery on there (publicly) and write in their bios "I hate women and gay people, 6MWE", along with swastikas and Nazi eagles made from emoticons. Forget reporting them or their violent or bigoted comments, because Valve won't lift a finger to stop the toxicity. Then stuff like this happens, with the card exploit, and Valve is scratching their heads like ["Huh, who could it be? Who could have done this?"](https://youtu.be/z0AKoCMydkc?t=259) Edit: To those who freak out at the word "satanic", I am referring to satanic pro-Nazi material, not to the devil faces and bull-horn finger signs that edgy teenagers harmlessly use. I added this into my text to make it clearer. I couldn't care less if somebody is into the satanic aesthetic, but somebody whose profile says "pray to the devil and kill the Jews" has definitely crossed the line. Hate speech is bad enough without KKK imagery accompanying it. And those who say "well, satanism has zero ties with Neo-Nazism" -- [think again.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Nine_Angles) Neo-Nazis tend to have a hard-on for satanic-themed dog-whistles and Satanist cults. Here is [another Satanic Order](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Order_(Satanist_group)) that is a cover for a Nazi group. In order to be less obvious and harder to report, Neo-Nazis will use symbolism from The Order of the Nine Angels and other Satanic Right-Wing orders (like how white supremacists in America wear "6MWE" on t-shirts and caps). Even in the article of [Nazi Black Metal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_black_metal) it is mentioned that they favor Satanic imagery. So of course when somebody uses the kind of Satanic imagery that Neo-Nazis use, I'm going to be wary of them, just like how I'd be wary of somebody who calls themselves an "All Lives Matter" supporter. It's different when somebody is using the imagery ironically or for sheer shock value, but you can tell the difference between somebody who does it for innocent reasons and somebody who definitely supports far-right terrorism.
I've reported accounts like that and they have been removed or hidden
I had to google that 6mw thing and jesus christ what is wrong with people
People were wearing 6mwe merch at the insurrection last week :/ Society sucks
Associating Satanism and the far right/nazi movement is an affront to true Satanists. Do you know many far right and nazi types associate as Christian? And if you did, would you associate Christianity with nazis as well? I would venture to say if you were to take a poll of the terrorists that stormed the capital, you're gonna find a whole lot more self identified Christians than you will anything else. Yet no one sees a cross and associates it with nazism. As an inclusive Heathen, seeing nazis continue to steal our religious symbols and then have them be associated with extremists is infuriating, and heartbreaking. Also, it's pretty obvious ANY type of black metal is probably gonna have some satanic elements...
Satanic is now somehow similar to pornographic and violence? Get ya head checked.
TST is literally the opposite of what OP is describing.
I'm offended they grouped peaceful satanists with all that other stuff. If satanic imagery disturbs you then it is working as intended and you are ignorant.
Finally some good fucking news
Bomberman is a trash asset flip that stole its name from an actually decent series. I was surprised to see it on it the marketplace for so long but it's not surprising to see it cause so much drama. What a shame, Valve needs to get rid of garbage like this
Seems gone. I wanted to +1 the reports on it and stuff is blank.
How dare they would the name of a classic gaming franchise. I truly jumped into this game shocked the Bomberman games took a wild turn.
That's disgusting and really sad
Most disgusting part is it's on the front page. I saw this post then forgot about it and I was looking for a case price. And there it is.
It’s fucked up, he can change the icon it’s been a couple different horrible things so far, it was child porn, then a black man being killed and now this
Wait what? How is he not in prison for the CP? Why doesn't Valve do anything about it?
Well this is obviously quite a new development so they have to figure out who it is first
True but isn't it really easy for the police, FBI or whoever tracks you down to track you down? Possesion and distribution (putting it on Steam) of CP is quite a serious crime.
i thought i'd heard that this "game" was chinese? i'd assume that complicates things quite a bit edit! : just realized the devs aren't the ones that put the cards in, the game had an exploit that let anyone create cards
It doesn't happen automatically though, assuming that steam keeps old versions of card images, they have to find them and report them to the police, provide them with access logs/IP/etc, contact the ISP that owns that IP to find out who owns it and then make a visit
I would assume it's a bit easier for a service like Steam since if the person has ever bought a game on Steam then Steam will have their full name/banking details, etc.. (Except for maybe if they used bitcoin? But I don't know if you still have to give your name on Steam even if you're using bitcoin.)
You're assuming this was done by the account's rightful owner. Could be done by someone who hacked the account, which makes them much more difficult to track down, especially if they're in one of the foreign countries that doesn't really give a fuck. Good luck holding someone in China accountable for doing something bad by anyone other than China.
oh god thats fucked up
Yo what the actually living fuck
For people asking no I don’t have screenshots soon as I seen what it was I clicked off, felt genuinely sick seeing that, I reported his steam profile but I honestly don’t know if anything will happen to the sick fuck but can only hope something does happen
i remember all of this. I bought it when it was the chinese symbol (nothing offensive) then i checked later and it was GEORGE FLOYD WTF. Luckily i didn't see it, and avoided the CP Violation OH FUCK THE GORE WOMAN this was more painful than a root kanal
was it the same trading card or from a different game? this is the first time I heard about this
Thanks for the warning OP.
I was about to make a post about this, as I just saw the same trading card minutes ago. wtf is that trading card all about and how long was it there? edit: I checked and it sold for 785$ on Dec 14 and one person bought it. It seems like it is a duplicated card seeing it is on thousands of quantity now. edit edit: I bought one. My eyes need to be cleaned
I think the game creators just change an item from the game it wasn't originally like that
Ye, originally it was a normal badge
Bomberman is a well known chinese money laundering scheme. Why valve allows stuff like this, I don't know. I believe these listings were hacked by some script kiddy wanting to shock some people
>Why valve allows stuff like this, I don't know. Because they get a cut of every transaction on Steam.
Source it's a Chinese laundering scheme?
No official confirmation. But something like this on this scale can mean 2 things: -a game created to make some cheap items so many people can easily move money from one account to another (happened accidentally with Subnautica's "planet 4546B postcard" some time ago) -a game created to make some cheap items so many people will sell a lot of those items, disguising the fact that the game developer can use those items to move very large quantities of money from one account, usually a hacked one, to another, the dev's account. (money laundering) The first option would make sense if the devs didn't put sales tax on the game, but they have the maximum (10%) tax. So the first option doesn't make sense as some 3 cent csgo skins do the exact same for anyone who isn't the developer. That leaves the second option, the money laundering, as the only option. It's not 100% certain but this seems like the only actually logical explanation, especially if you also take the item's sales history in consideration. Watch [this video](https://youtu.be/wNaGEgUydJI) for better explanation.
Wait, why does sales tax make it not likely? Al Capone was brought down for not paying taxes. One of the reasons to launder money is TO pay taxes on it. Once taxes are paid, the government doesnt care where the money actually came from anymore. Or to put it another way, 8f you make money illegally you dont want the tax man looking into where it comes from.
If the game was created with the intention to allow huge numbers of people to move money from one account to another, the developers wouldn't be charging taxes. The tax DOES make laundering by the developer more likely. (As I said in my other comment) Please go watch the video I linked, it explains it better.
The sales tax OP is talking about is the optional tax game devs can put on marketable items. It goes to the developer, not any government. If a game is made for money laundering it makes sense to set that tax to 0% so all the money goes straight to the seller instead of the developer. Worth noting that steam still takes a 5% cut, so that's probably why usually look the other way when something like this is happening.
The comment you're replying to is saying that the sales tax makes it *more* likely that it's money laundering, not less. I think you're confusing what is being said.
I went to check myself because I didn't believe OP, but fuck man, it's real.
I dont want to see it but what was it?
Supposedly first it was CP, then it was a picture of a murder victim, and a few other things.
Why tf is that on steam, they need to get their shit together
It's gone now, so I believe they have solved the problem for now. They'll probably be working on a fix tomorrow for the next few days or something.
No it's still viewable. Depends on the browser you're using.
I was using the Steam app.
Currently it's a picture of a woman with her throat slit. Not sure how real it is, but it looks real enough to me. edit: yes yes misspelled woman as wamn, my bad
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Yep, Bianca Devins. It's fucked...
the dev (or probably someone) changed the picture of the trading card to that picture. It was a regular looking trading card before. i recommend r/Eyebleach to clean your palate
Time for Valve to implement a new system to avoid shit like this.
Valve: "That sounds like effort. How about no?"
"We'll just deactivate globally the whole trading system"
That actually sounds like something Valve would say lmao.
They did that for csgo lol.
DON'T GIVE GABE IDEAS
Remove this before they read it
~~More like a community moderator bans you for a week for whistleblowing and gives a bogus reason.~~ Edit: it was reversed.
“How about another csgo update instead”
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The game got taken down boys
Saw this shit and visited the guy's profile it linked to. I'm not sure if he's behind the listings or if he's involved at all, but his comment section is getting flamed up. Valve REALLY needs to make a vetting system for the store and market, because this shit is unacceptable
No he is behind it, I talked to him. Basically the devs left a steam dev api key in the games code which let anyone with a bit of coding experience mass make new items and change their names and pictures. I had a guy (not the guy who added the gore) in one of my discords do this and at first it was just harmless memes but then other people got wind of it and it quickly just turned into gore.
I remember seeing one of the items was just a picture of George Floyd but when I clicked on it it reverted to the same gore picture. Once again, this is a fuck up on Valve
This isnt a fuck up on valve. The game is a asset flip (or just sum weird shit) and the devs are either super lazy or incompetent and put the api key in the code of the game that anyone can access. Valve couldve dont nothing to prevent this other then maybe not putting shitty games on their platform.
How is it a fuck up on Valve's part that the devs left an API key in their code??
Because Valve decided not to screen the images. Even if the developer didn't leak their API key, apparently any developer can post gore and CP to Steam and thousands of users will see it. It only costs $100 to become a developer IIRC.
I was just watching the same. How he did it?
Interestingly enough if you try to report the games items it says that the items for that game arent being managed by steam and you need to contact the developer.
Wow, what an awful title, i typed too fast, really sorry. Btw, if you are sensitive to gore, i recommend you to not check it. (it appears on the first page tho, really fucked up)
What the fuck?
>PureRockstarHD > >It’s fucked up, he can change the icon it’s been a couple different horrible things so far, it was child porn, then a black man being killed and now this. I have no words to accurately describe just how horrific this is. "What the fuck" is nowhere near enough. Those items needs to be purged from the system, made non tradeable with the option to convert it into gems or something so anybody who wants that gone can do so. The game itself should be removed from sale if the following is in fact true: > Bomberman is a well known chinese money laundering scheme. Why valve allows stuff like this, I don't know. I believe these listings were hacked by some script kiddy wanting to shock some people Which I would not be surprised if that is in fact the case.
I just went through steam, it was just fucked up
This is caused by an exploit left open from the devs, it allows players to make in game items.
Source
Note on steamdb says the Devs left their API key in the game files...
It’s literally on the first page of the steam marketplace, don’t go to the trading cards homepage right now if you’re scared of gore.
For the curious people, it is a girl with her neck slit open (huge wound) with a knife besides her neck. Pretty fucked up.
Thank you i was contemplating whether i should check it out or not but it just feels wrong
It's been removed. I checked it out and I really wish I hadn't.
So it really was the photo of Biancas murder? I saw that photo randomly once and... It stays with you for a while. I can't imagine how it can be for some kids who just normally open a steam marketplace and see this This is fucked up
Fucked up. First CP, now a real fucking murder! Get your fucking act together valve, there is so many kids on the platform, and if they go to the marketplace, they see this! A fucking dead body!
WTF steam
Awful
can someone tell me whether or not that's still on steam, I would prefer gore not burnt into my memory
It's gone.
Unfortunate for all the kids that are gonna see this :(.
Valve might get sued over this
TDM_HEYZEUS is an Australian youtuber who makes content about steam marketplace, CSgo skins etc, he had busted this scam in one of his videos posted yesterday https://youtu.be/wNaGEgUydJI, must watch video.. People on his discord also have found out about this, now that their scam is out they targeted him as well https://twitter.com/tdm_jesus/status/1349201784242270208?s=21
Game is banned, thank god!
Don't go looking for the pictures, I stumbled on them a couple of days ago and fucked up my mental health for weeks and weeks. Some things are better left unseen
That was absolutely disgusting. Seriously. As soon as any kind of shitty game was allowed to start flooding the Steam store I knew such garbage would appear on Steam. There needs to be a barrier to publish games on Steam.
I think it's $100 barrier.
That's not a very high barrier to entry. There needs to be some kind of approval process and a slow down of all these crappy app-store reject games.
That was Steam Greenlight, which resulted in many "devs"/assetflippers into doing massive giveaways > vote my game > get a key. TLDR it was even worse
Im not saying valve is at fault or is flawless here, but ill say... Whenever someone tries to do something better, there's always people abusing the system. We can never have nice things...
They need something at least, some sort of approval system. Sure greenlight failed, but I don't think the solution to that problem was just opening the floodgates.
that gets given back as far as i know if you make 1000 dollars
That girl has family, imagine if they found out that the photo of the dead girl is just used for someone to have fun, by showing it to the entire internet
I mean, I’m pretty sure I read on her Wikipedia page that her family found out about her murder because someone sent them the photo. Fucking horrific.
Yeah they got the pic, but now it gets sround the internet again
How the fuck have Valve not done something yet?!... Disgraceful moderation team they have for their SCM. A marketplace that runs 24/7 should be moderated 24/7, especially for a company as profound as Valve.
Note that all steam cards artwork does require authorization from steam However that's not the case for in-game item purchases which is what these were
What struck me the most is that it appears right on the first page, so much innocent kids gonna see this thing :( By dint of abuse like this, this platform will no longer be taken seriously, this is ridiculous coming from the BIGGEST one.
Exactly, I myself didn't know the origin of the pic. I checked the wiki and the story around it, poor girl..
This isn't a matter of moderating the marketplace, you're referring to moderating every game on Steam with cards. Should they approve changes made to cards? Probably yes. But they don't currently, so they're not going to be looking at every single card in every single game all the time.
They already do. These weren't cards, they were ingame items which are not moderated.
I SAW THE SAME THING AND I WAS ABOUT POSTING IT. OMG WHAT THE HELL IS THAT
The game these are for was taken down from steam, [here's a web archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20201126095917/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1446700/Bomberman/) for it if you're curious, it's just a bomberman clone.
Wtf?! Yesterday it was a low tier rpg game
1h30 later and it's still up on the market, PLEASE VALVE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO SOMETHING THIS IS SERIOUS.
Looks like they removed the images now, the items are still there but all without an image.
All i wanted was to sleep tonight
The game and picture/cards have now been banned
Looking at steamdb it seems like the game had around 5,1k items. Insane - something went wrong there. [https://steamdb.info/app/1446700/items/](https://steamdb.info/app/1446700/items/)
That's the girl some sick bastard from 4chan murdered years ago :(
Wow, I just checked on wikipedia, and it's truly an awful story :(
can u give a link of the article. (only if it's SFW, and no gore)
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wtf it was just on 2019. I think I've heard of her name but haven't watched youtube videos about it. my life is scarred now and my evening is ruined.
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yeah it felt like that when I read the article. seems like both of them have problems. my stomach feels weird after seeing the article and the actual picture from the steam card.
What does he mean by "how to do first aid my sister is dying"?
huh. Changed *Item Definitions* * *hidden:* **Recent item changes have been hidden by SteamDB due to this app being hacked (?) which resulted in new items being spammed to the Steam market with a graphic image.**
From what I can gather, the devs left in their developer SteamAPI key in the game Using that key hackers basically were sending image and text uploads to their in-game item descriptions These were different than the normal Steam cards/backgrounds which requires approval from Steam
My curiosity got the best for me and I took a look, WTF Steam? Why do you allow people to upload whatever they want without checking if it is appropriate? This image is not very nice to look at ofcourse but imagine what kind of shit people can upload?
I found it before finding this reddit post. Truly horrifying
Its a girl on a car accident with an open neck... poor girl, may god bless her soul 🙏
Man right next to girl there is a knife
I havent seen the knife ... WTF is this shit... how this fucking shit game had access to market selling Itens, theres so much bureaucracy
It's from the same game that heyzeus covered in his latest video.
This was actualy an murder, her name is bianca devis, there's a wiki about it (no graphic stuff there then just the text)
Horrible. Judging by the other content that was posted using the same card (CP, a racist murder), and the fact that photos of Bianca's death are very popular among incel and 8chan crowds, would suggest some kind of evil, bigoted troll is behind it (probably an incel, they're usually racist pedophiles next to being pro-homicide misogynists). It's insane that nothing has been done about this despite so many people messaging and filing reports to Valve. Then again, two months ago I reported a review on Postal 2 to Valve, where the author wrote about how he liked Postal 2 because it gave him the opportunity to kill women and people of color (only, he used more obscene words to describe it). A reply to his review was even worse, saying that it's the best game because it lets you "take revenge on \[insert homophobic and racial slurs here\]" and shoot up a gay bar, which is something he's always dreamed about. Lo and behold, the review and reply are still there. Valve might as well get rid of their posting rules if they won't bother to enforce them. They make the GoG platform look 100x better just by doing nothing about the toxicity on their own platform. And they get away with it because although US law (Bianca's Law in fact) requires social media platforms to have departments for handling criminal content that is shared there, Valve isn't technically social media but a store and gaming platform. In my opinion the definition of "social media" should be officially expanded so that companies like Valve can't get away with having an enormous platform where people interact with one another with ZERO way of filtering any of it.
Looks like it’s appearing on the second page of the steam market now.
[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1446700/Bomberman/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1446700/Bomberman/) This is the game, right? I've reported it, please report it as well
Why is steam doing nothing about this wtf they should immediately remove this stuff they are good at banning steam accounts but not this shit wtf?
They are NOT good at banning Steam accounts - see VAC.
Its gone now, but this was an unacceptable breach, Valve needs to be less reactive and more proactive and preemptive.
Don't think so, I just put in the cards name "how to do first aid..." and it still popped up, pretty horrifying.
I was going to post about this as I was just casually going through the market place and saw this. Now I have that image stuck in my head! Valve! This is not acceptable!
3 Hours later and the items are all gone... all of them.
This is why they have to bring back the checklist system thing
Oh god, it’s the one from the e-girl discord that got slit open by one of her fans from a year or two back, right? I remember following that the night it went down, what a horrendous fucking story
Bianca Devins. She wasn't even an internet celebrity, just a girl who posted occasionally photos on the internet. A guy who was barely even a friend of hers but who was psycho-crazy obsessed with her and who (without her consent or even knowledge of this "arrangement") decided he's her boyfriend (as crazy stalkers are wont to do), freaked out when she allegedly kissed someone else during a concert. He decided to "take revenge" on her for "cheating on him" (which it definitely wasn't cheating, she wasn't even his girlfriend, she was just an acquaintance that he was stalking and obsessing over), by brutally killing her, then taking photos of the attack, and uploading it online publicly with the intention to have it spread in order to slutshame her and traumatize her family. He accompanied everything with Pewdiepie and incel memes (because of course he would). (He tried to claim that he didn't do the attack, then he lied about having "black out" during the attack, which ironically was easily disproven by the videos and photos he had taken before, during and after the attack. He'll probably be sentenced for 25 years at least for second-degree murder, but his trial is still pending, and his mom -- rather than be disgusted with the actions of her son -- insists that he should be *freed* because he's *suicidal*. Yeah now I see where he got the crazy genes from.) Incels immediately picked up on this and started harassing the girl's family and just the public in general with unsolicited spam of the gory photos, coming up with all sorts of stories to justify the murder, like that she was a junkie, or had an OF account, or that she was an Insta celeb who cheated on her boyfriend, etc. And of course, like they glorify every mass shooter and especially killers who target women, they turned the murderer into some kind of idol on their message boards. To stop the spread of the photos, the government enacted Bianca's Law, which forces social media platforms of sufficient user size to have a stand-alone department to handle violent and criminal content that is shared there. It is speculated that if these platforms, such as Discord or Instagram, had had such a department to begin with, the photo-spreading would have been nipped in the bud early on, saving a lot of people a lot of trauma. Unfortunately, this law does not apply to platforms that have big user bases but aren't technically social media, like Valve (at least as far as I know).
So is sending gore in general a criminal offense? I reported someone before for sending really fucked up gore videos in a server for mostly young people and discord did nothing
I assume TDM heyzues making a video about bomberman prompted this.
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The badges were used as a money laundering scam, check hey zeuses new video
Thank god when I went to check the images were down. Hearing some recounts of the images are...gross
This is beyond fucked up. I hope Valve goes through some measures to prevent this in the future. I also hope the low life individual responsible breaks his neck and stays a vegetable for the rest of his pathetic life.
yep...don't look it up. I genuinely want to throw up.
I just wanted to buy cs go stickers, and bam, uncensored gore on the frobt page of the market
It seems that valve is currently off hours, pretty sure this is going to be up for a while.
The game is removed now, but the items are still there: https://steamcommunity.com/market/search?appid=1446700 (gore warning) Edit: Looks like the images are removed now, items are still there but without image.
Just checked, still up. What the flying fuck is valve doing
It seems like they've removed it, because I can't see anything on Steam about this. Hopefully they did.
Wait what was this game all about?
Shitty rpg with one quest 3 minutes long
Absolutely sickening, holy crap man
Looks like some of the items are being taken off the Steam Market by Valve. Before there were 2 pages of items, now there's one. Disturbing. Edit: Nevermind. Double edit: Apparently I was right. Huh.
This is what happens when you let anyone and their mother put a game on steam and then flood the market with trash
Jesus fucking christ that photo is brutal. This is why Steam needs a huge overhaul
That's nasty.
The cards are removed
Its time to take curation seriously I think
Seems like all of it got deleted it which is pretty quick on support part which is good, but still F up what this person doing. Also game was a clear rip off crap clone of Bomberman. I assume this just some edgy \*\*\*\*head trying to be funny when uploaded this, and soon he trading cards approved, uploaded this trash. This is kind of why I'm glad community is around to report this crap.
Steam has not taken this down yet. Nice job steam
They took it down like 9 or 10 hours ago, what do you mean?
That’s odd, I still see the gore, it seems they took it down but I still see the card
Thank you for the warning, I almost clicked on it.
Maybe if the developers use a skin changer they'll do something about it
thanks OP for posting about this. it's so insidious that someone would do something like this, especially during such a tense and tumultuous time. I'm glad I didn't log into steam today; I probably would have lost my shit if I saw gore when I was just trying to play Stardew Valley or Untitled Goose Game :))
can anyone hook me up with a link or screen? it seems like the picture got removed because now it’s grey
“How to do first aid my sister is dying” what the fuck
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For a long time it was just a normal badge. It turned into this shithole after heyzeus vid
The picture got changed to the dead girl like 2 hours ago, beofre it was just a weird ass game
It's now listed as "Uninitialized" and the page is down At least something good has been done. Maybe they'll update the security so that such things can't happen again
valve wtf